aesthelete, aesthelete@lemmy.world

People say I’m weird. Okay, I was raised by a very weird family in very weird circumstances, doing my best to be sane and normal in a weird situation.

I feel for you. At least some members of my family are either psychopaths, have narcissistic personality disorder, or both. I think the comorbidity there is pretty common.

The lifelong damage caused by being raised around sociopaths is real — as is the continuing damage from living in a country run by them.

Time to dump GitHub for codeberg.

Just wear a mask. I bought 400 of them a while ago on Amazon for $40. One way masking sucks, but is highly effective.

If Trump’s dumb ass hadn’t understocked the PPE last time, we could’ve just all worn masks and then generally went about our business otherwise.

Including being good to hypothetical, unlikely trillions that may live someday if we colonize Mars.

Having empathy in this society run by psychopaths is depressing and anxiety-inducing indeed.

It bleeds into everything in this whole place. You know when you’re using something — a government system, a website, a support line, an application — and it feels like nobody thought about how shitty the experience would be for you? That’s what it feels like to live in a society that has no empathy. The people that design these systems do not give a shit about how you’ll feel being subjected to them, because they have no empathy and have never considered nor cared what your experience would be like.

Not gonna happen. Not with the effective altruist cult running things.

The real issue is when other countries that don’t give a shit throw stuff up there and we can’t do much about it.

Dude, we are the country that doesn’t give a shit and throws stuff up there and we can’t do much about it. WE ARE.

This is fine IMO, because you shouldn’t use the smart features in the first place. Just get a 3rd party streaming box. The ONN one is like $25. (Or if you’re a giant nerd hook your computer to your TV.)

It does. I wound up buying two new TVs because of the thing OP is talking about here. You could actually get around agreeing and then opting out by removing the TV from the network and then restoring it to factory and never reconnecting it.

Yep, I don’t even really like these things, but ollama is a docker container away and the models work just fine on my several year old AMD laptop GPU.

Where do you guys live? Is it America? Because I kinda feel like in America I’m never surprised that someone drove drunk.

(Especially before Uber.)

Reminds me of the “people evacuated” scene from the Wire.

Can someone please come out with a phone that’s an actual computer and help stop this nonsense?

Phones cost a lot of money at this point and I’m completely sick of them being some locked down, surveillance ridden pile of crap. A reasonably built one would be able to replace a laptop at this point if it weren’t for these artificial constraints imposed by the stupid fucking suits running things.

We’re finally learning that it indeed sucks to suck

Pathetic

Hahaha remember when they said nfts were going to be valuable because the artists involved were so innovative and cool? Then now the next GPU-selling trend is to rip off artists.

Why do we have to endlessly debate stupid opinions on social media in the first place? What possible good will come out of being exposed to more scam artists, bots, bigots, and pro-genocide accounts? All it’s done as far as I can see is make things worse in the real world and grown political movements that cause mass harm to others.

Most social media websites are putrid dumpsters full of Karens arguing about how many homeless and immigrants it’s moral to kill. Can’t we have one place that isn’t fascist trash?

If you feel like if you’re missing the trash just join X, Reddit, Facebook, nextdoor, Instagram, truth social, a news article / YouTube comment section, or turn on most cable news networks.

That shit is everywhere, and it’s spaces like this one and mastodon that are the exception purely for showing that not everyone is a bigoted, lifeless asshole who wishes harm upon others because they’re rotten inside, want to turn a quick buck, have no hobbies nor talents, and/or are anhedonic.

Eh not everyone uses gimmicks.

I don’t think so. There was a book where the author looked at basically the same groups of people (stoics, buddhists, etc.) but it didn’t have the same buzzy title. I think I loaded both onto my Kindle from pdf so now I can’t find a reference to either. Oh well.

Reading this made me notice it again so thanks I guess.